Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training

For those who have already taken the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience: Comparative and Creative Forms of Yoga Nidra, formerly known as the
Total Yoga Nidra Foundation, this course trains yoga teachers and others to teach and facilitate yoga nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications. Uniquely amongst yoga nidra trainings, it offers Total Yoga Nidra, a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra.

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This course trains yoga teachers and other practitioners to teach and facilitate yoga nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications. Uniquely amongst yoga nidra trainings, it offers Total Yoga Nidra, a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra.

Encounter yoga nidra in its totality

Explore the multiple forms and levels of this remarkable yoga practice

Become empowered to deepen your own intuitive practice of meditative yoga nidra beyond the limits of standard trademarked and traditional forms

Understand the full living range of different methods, lineages and levels of total yoga nidra

Experience total yoga nidra as a living intelligence of the heart, an adaptogenic practice of deep healing and self-discovery

Grow in confidence to share responsive and appropriate total yoga nidra practice with students and clients

This training, designed and tutored by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli, who together have over forty years experience of practice, teaching and working therapeutically with all forms and levels of yoga nidra, is a uniquely comparative and creative, experiential course, held in a Buddhist monastery setting in London. It offers both practical training and personal and professional development.

What is Total Yoga Nidra?

Total Yoga Nidra is a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges and supports a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra. Total yoga nidra empowers you to encounter yoga nidra in its totality: as an adaptogenic meditative practice without limits in terms of its capacity to heal, nourish and liberate.

Most people who are familiar with yoga nidra have listened to some kind of pre-recorded audio track(s), but might not have had the opportunity to encounter the practice live from a teacher in a group setting; and although many people may have experienced a live group yoga nidra, where a teacher delivers a standard script to a group of students, this relaxing experience is very different from practising yoga nidra that has been specifically tailored for a particular individual, for example in a one-to-one setting. This experience in turn is different from the encounter with yoga nidra that comes during a practice that is co-created by teacher and student together, with the specific intention to meet the student precisely where s/he is right now, both in language and method of practice, and in terms of the level at which that practice can be most appropriately met.

And whilst all of these experiences of yoga nidra certainly bring huge benefits, an entirely different set of possibilities open up when yoga nidra is set free from the need to have any external auditory guide of any kind. At this level of self practice, the protocols for practice are so deeply familiar to the practitioner that when we simply lie (or sit) quietly, then the practice can be invited to unfold silently, in the voice of our own intuitive inner guide.

In this course you will learn:

to devise and deliver Total Yoga Nidra practices appropriate to your needs and those of your students and clients;

a clear practical understanding of the structure and function of Total Yoga Nidra, including models of best practice, and techniques to be avoided;

a practical understanding of the key principles of yogic psychology and philosophy relevant to the practice of Total Yoga Nidra;

a contextual understanding of the development and history of Total Yoga Nidra across different lineages;

to share Total Yoga Nidra with an informed sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual experiences of those receiving the practice;

to teach a range of restorative yoga asanas suitable for use during yoga nidra practice;

to teach within the appropriate safety guidelines for this type of yoga practice.

Topics covered include:

Understanding the structure and variations in approaches to, and levels of, Total Yoga Nidra practice

Clinical hypnosis, self-hypnosis and yoga nidra – a full exploration of the relationship between these practices

Deeper explorations of yoga philosophy and cosmology in relation to Total Yoga Nidra

Exploring research on yoga nidra exploring the value of understandings from neuroscience, clinical psychology, psycho-neuro-immunology and physiology in relation to the function of yoga nidra, including stress and the relaxation response

Restorative asana: refinements on propping poses for yoga nidra

Sankalpa: resolution and intention setting, listening to inner guidance, framing and using Sankalpa within and around yoga nidra

Breath awareness /pranayama: specific use within the structure of yoga nidra session, and to support the practice of yoga nidra

Visualisations: a range of different traditional and creative scripting options, contra- indications, appropriateness and therapeutic value

Are you pregnant? Breastfeeding? Or perhaps you want to know more about your eligibility – Please click here to download the Statement of Inclusion document which is a genuine welcome from Uma and details the appropriate support for women considering attending any of her courses.

Certification

On successfully completing all course requirements, you will receive a Yogacampus certificate of completion.

Please note that you will be required to carry out some pre-course assignments including pre-reading and/or reflections/journaling to enable you to get the most out of the training. We therefore recommend that you register for the course as early as possible to allow yourself plenty of time to prepare. You will receive instructions for the pre-course assignments together with your booking confirmation. Please note it is your responsibility to read the joining instructions that will be outlined in your booking confirmation email.

What our students say

I would highly recommend it. It has been a very inspiring experience. I'm excited to start teaching.
A Yogacampus student on Learn to Teach Yoga Nidra , November 2014